Because a market economy relies on institutional bedrocks like the rule of law, enforceable contracts and a stable government free of corruption, the development banks should actively promote sound governance and public-sector management in borrowing countries.
Progressives, as bedrock Democrats like to call themselves, are despondent.
At issue immediately is whether that can be achieved through a shift in tactics and tone, or will instead require a deeper rethinking of the party's longtime positions on bedrock issues like guns and immigration.
He's rebelled over Heathrow and selling off forests but when it's come to bedrock issues like protecting the wealthy against the tax man and cutting the incomes of the poorest, he's been a model of Tory conformity.
Some critics warn that one provision might allow schools to mask failures in bedrock subjects like reading and math by giving them credit for student performance in other subjects or on so-called alternate indicators.
But not everyone is so sure that the new research, in its delineation of what the bedrock is like near one key part of the Totten grounding line, does much to lessen concern about the region and its potential for eventually causing large sea level rise.
Dr. James F. Bell III, a professor of astronomy at Cornell and the lead scientist for the panoramic camera, said that some layers of exposed bedrock looked like a conglomerate of similar pebbles and grains and that they might fall loose as the rocks erode.
The Digital Dilemma 12.18.02 The digital crisis is so pervasive that even bedrock beliefs like Moore's Law are coming into doubt.
Just after the impact, deep granite bedrock, flowing like a liquid, rebounded into a central tower as tall as 10 kilometers before collapsing into the circular ridge.
